English Language Arts
Language Arts:
Goals: Language Arts lessons include shared reading, guided reading, reader's/writer's workshops, printing, spelling, and grammar concepts. Students will learn to write manuscript letters and numbers. Workshops are used to improve on reading, decoding, spelling, handwriting and writing skills.
Sonday-E Phonics Program
Based on Orton-Gillingham methods, it is a structured, multi-sensory approach to teaching phonics, reading, and spelling.
1. To identify letters, sounds, word patterns, sentences,
2. Be able to manipulate sounds within a word, create rhymes, blend/segment sounds, reading common sight words, use digraphs, vowel sounds, endings, compound words, word families and contractions to read fluently.
Reader's Workshop: Units of Study from Lucy Calkins' Reader's Workshop
1. Identify Titles & Authors
2. Identify characters, setting and plot of a story at one's own reading level.
3. Use sequence, predictions, context, key words, and prior knowledge to understand what is read and be able to retell grade level expository and narrative text.
4. Use legible penmanship to write brief narrative and expository pieces with description and focus.
5. Use complete sentences with appropriate punctuation.
6. Capitalize beginnings of sentences, I, days of week and month. Will correctly spell sight words and spelling words while phonetically spelling other words.
7. Speak and listen effective one on one and in small groups.
Writer's Workshop: Units of Study from Lucy Calkins' Wirter's Workshop
Main focus will be on three types of genre writing:
1. Personal Narrative Writing
Children take everyday events of their lives and communicate through pictures and writings.
2. Opinion/Persuasive Writing
Students present and rank their favorite collections of toys, books, television shows etc. to create convincing reviews for their audience.
3. Nonfiction Writing
Children combine pictures and charts to create engaging teaching books, for example, a how-to booklet.
Goals: Language Arts lessons include shared reading, guided reading, reader's/writer's workshops, printing, spelling, and grammar concepts. Students will learn to write manuscript letters and numbers. Workshops are used to improve on reading, decoding, spelling, handwriting and writing skills.
Sonday-E Phonics Program
Based on Orton-Gillingham methods, it is a structured, multi-sensory approach to teaching phonics, reading, and spelling.
1. To identify letters, sounds, word patterns, sentences,
2. Be able to manipulate sounds within a word, create rhymes, blend/segment sounds, reading common sight words, use digraphs, vowel sounds, endings, compound words, word families and contractions to read fluently.
Reader's Workshop: Units of Study from Lucy Calkins' Reader's Workshop
1. Identify Titles & Authors
2. Identify characters, setting and plot of a story at one's own reading level.
3. Use sequence, predictions, context, key words, and prior knowledge to understand what is read and be able to retell grade level expository and narrative text.
4. Use legible penmanship to write brief narrative and expository pieces with description and focus.
5. Use complete sentences with appropriate punctuation.
6. Capitalize beginnings of sentences, I, days of week and month. Will correctly spell sight words and spelling words while phonetically spelling other words.
7. Speak and listen effective one on one and in small groups.
Writer's Workshop: Units of Study from Lucy Calkins' Wirter's Workshop
Main focus will be on three types of genre writing:
1. Personal Narrative Writing
Children take everyday events of their lives and communicate through pictures and writings.
2. Opinion/Persuasive Writing
Students present and rank their favorite collections of toys, books, television shows etc. to create convincing reviews for their audience.
3. Nonfiction Writing
Children combine pictures and charts to create engaging teaching books, for example, a how-to booklet.